Out of obscurity. In the 1970s, herpetologist John D. Lynch searched for and described several species from the southern Ecuador, but he never encountered P. ruidus.Instead, Lynch based his ...

Scientists have discovered that the kultarr – one of Australia’s most elusive marsupials – is actually three different ...

Thylacines — marsupials known as Tasmanian tigers — were declared extinct decades ago, but efforts to find one in the wild ...

Extinct for nearly a century, a rediscovered 90-year-old film offers a rare glimpse of an Australian species before its ...

In a heartening development, conservationists reintroduced platypuses to the Hacking River in New South Wales, Australia.

An extinct Australian animal can once again be seen bounding across a paddock after rare 16mm film was digitised by the ...

"The recording highlights that there is still much to learn about the animals and plants that live in (New South Wales)." ...

Katy Perry shared photos from her Australia trip amid her split from Orlando Bloom, enjoying time with daughter Daisy Dove ...

South Australia’s tiny pygmy bluetongue skink is baking in a warming, drying homeland, so Flinders University scientists have ...

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Animal experts said the two cassowaries were a parent child pair, too, a father and son who had been “habituated” – that is ...

A team of researchers from the University of Adelaide, in collaboration with cavers, has uncovered a large number of eyeless, ...